- Lee still considered Columbia, SC to be his home. On June 24, 2014 his family started Lee Thompson Young Foundation.
- Wrote an episode for The Famous Jett Jackson (1998), a TV series in which he was the star, the episode originally aired April 8, 2000.
- Attended the Professional Performing Arts High School in New York City. Other alumni included Britney Spears, Claire Danes and Chris Trousdale.
- Police confirmed the cause of death as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Young had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, for which he had been taking medication, and had been suffering from depression before his death.
- Young's family launched the Lee Thompson Young Foundation in an effort to help remove the stigma surrounding mental illness.
- When Lee was 12, he and his mother moved to New York City so she could attend the prestigious Union Theological Seminary.
- Was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
- Young graduated with honors from the University of Southern California, where he majored in cinematic arts.
- At age ten, he portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in a play called A Night of Stars and Dreams by Dwight Woods at the Phillis Wheatley Repertory Theater of Greenville, South Carolina. It was then that Young decided he wanted to become an actor.
- He was an American actor who began his career as a teenager, playing the titular character on the Disney Channel television series The Famous Jett Jackson (1998-2001).
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